Short, but Revealing, Interview of David Treadwell

“As for code identity, I love the vision. But I’ll acknowledge that it hasn’t taken off as we’d hoped. When people tried to write partial-trust apps, it always turned out there was one thing they needed to do and couldn’t. We have to do more work to find the right scenarios where you can do a functional smart-client app that runs in partial trust and doesn’t require the user to micromanage permissions. In WinFX, I want to make it viable to write partial-trust apps that can do real things.”